# belonging (member)

Being read by a collective self as one of its members, so that the walls it sets read as one's own.

- Computed level: L16 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [collective self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared), [member](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-member.social), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [set](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-set.fix), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end)

**Through:** Membership moves walls inward: once a collective self reads a thing as a member, the walls the group sets stop reading as imposed from outside and start reading as the member's own.

**Novel properties:**
- walls that stop reading as imposed
- inside-ness granted by others' models
- the price and gift of 'we'

## Used by
- [bharat vs india](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-bharat-vs-india.names) (L17)
- [legitimacy](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-legitimacy.endorsed) (L17)
- [loyalty](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-loyalty.kept) (L17)
- [national pride](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-national-pride.collective) (L19)
- [wounded nation](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wounded-nation.damaged) (L20)

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-belonging.member.json*  
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